"All my life, since I was little, I can remember war."

Dr. Shirley Chu, formerly from Peking, later engaged in research in solar energy at SMU, made this remark concerning her early years in China. At her mission school at Peking, December 7, 1941, she remembered all the American teachers being gone, having been interned by the Japanese. She left China in 1948, after WWII.

[Dallas Morning News, August 30, 1976]

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